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[Blarneyeggs]

Well, my childhood hatches didn't work so well. Either infertile eggs or boiled eggs... lol... The only time it worked was when I intentionally let one of our chickens go and she hid and made a nest somewhere. When she came out with her babies, she ran around the yard attacking us kids.

That'll teach ya.

 

[Hurley]

Cute!

 

[tdhenson86]

Ok this is the last hatch CPL shenanigans night do we want to play for points or just post? What should be the prizes? Over 2000 in the Spring/summer how about a juvenile trio of chickens from me?

Oh MY GOSH!!! That would be INCREDIBLE!!!

 

[kvmommy]

Worst hatch for me was just a few weeks ago. The first Silkie hen I ever owned (too old to lay anymore) decided to set on the eggs in the laying box. She was so insistent, I let her stay. I did not think they would hatch as she was off them often. One morning as I was running late to work I hurried to the barn for find her just inside the door where she always waits for morning snack. I shushed her away complaining I didn't have time today. I nudged her with my foot and stepped on 5 little silkies chicks. She had brought them to meet me at the door. Well, I was devastated as was she. 2 were killed instantly and the other three were injured. I brought the three to the house and went back to check on her. She was beside herself looking for the babies. I had to go to work, so I brought her in the house to be with the babies under the heat lamp, but she was not satisfied. That evening the babies were still alive but she would not stay in the box. I took her back to the barn. She went to the brooder box and paced under it as she could hear chicks inside. Well I was devastated that at what I had done but the three lived. We named them Faith, Hope and Charity. Two days after the accident I found Prissy sitting under the brooder box dead. I buried her next to the barn. I guess she was too old for the stress.

NOW - no more sad stories tonight......

Oh wow...that takes the prize. That is the saddest story ever. Just when I thought it couldn't be more tragic, its soooo much worse.

 

[KYTinpusher]

Ok this is the last hatch CPL shenanigans night do we want to play for points or just post? What should be the prizes? Over 2000 in the Spring/summer how about a juvenile trio of chickens from me?

What is we get over 5000?!?

 

[champer]

Worst hatch for me was just a few weeks ago. The first Silkie hen I ever owned (too old to lay anymore) decided to set on the eggs in the laying box. She was so insistent, I let her stay. I did not think they would hatch as she was off them often. One morning as I was running late to work I hurried to the barn for find her just inside the door where she always waits for morning snack. I shushed her away complaining I didn't have time today. I nudged her with my foot and stepped on 5 little silkies chicks. She had brought them to meet me at the door. Well, I was devastated as was she. 2 were killed instantly and the other three were injured. I brought the three to the house and went back to check on her. She was beside herself looking for the babies. I had to go to work, so I brought her in the house to be with the babies under the heat lamp, but she was not satisfied. That evening the babies were still alive but she would not stay in the box. I took her back to the barn. She went to the brooder box and paced under it as she could hear chicks inside. Well I was devastated that at what I had done but the three lived. We named them Faith, Hope and Charity. Two days after the accident I found Prissy sitting under the brooder box dead. I buried her next to the barn. I guess she was too old for the stress.

NOW - no more sad stories tonight......

I have no words

 

[crazypetlady]

A BYC cookbook, a GFM, hatching eggs, Eggies

 

[cluckitall]

Post your worst hatch stories. We will do random prizes again tonight. Post often if we get to 2000 the better the prizes!!

Does the last round of 8 Germahn NH, 8 Secret Santa eggs, eight ccl eggs, seven SFH eggs, eight NG turkey eggs (!!!!!

) and eleven basque eggs that resulted in one mystery chick and two basques, one rescued by sheer I-am-not-gonna-lose-this-chick stubbornness, count? I was pretty bummed. In fact, I was so bummed I immediately called on reinforcements for my spring eggs, lol! (Thank you, CPL!)

It was my own durn fault. Having had two perfect hatches (of my own, home-produced eggs) in my little home-made bator, I thought I was Queen Hatcher and obviously this wasn't so hard at all! So I built a bigger bator -- mistake #1. Bigger bator was made out of a far-too flimsy styrofoam cooler that didn't hold a steady temp worth a darn. Then I swapped for a bunch of eggs I really wanted (and cumulatively were, for me, pretty pricy) and -- mistake #2 -- set them without a test hatch. Well! The bator temp would stay steady for a few days until the weather changed and the room temp went up or down -- at which point the dang thing first went up, then down, then up then down... And of all my beautiful eggs, only three made it out alive. That was miserable!!!

If the NYD hatch doesn't go better I think I'm changing my username to "Chicken Murderer". *guiltguiltguiltguiltguilt* AND without lovely SFHs and ccls and turkeys! So I get to feel horrible and sad, both.

I really am over it now! Mostly...

 

[madamwlf]

Ha ha ha! Join the club! I know I'm not the only one who will be building new pens come spring. lol

Nope, DH doesn't know how many pens we will be building.

 

[Herducks]

I have a ton of bad hatch stories, it would be harder to come up with really good hatch stories! I think my best hatch rate was 4 of 6!